Joshua 15:26 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Bible Comments

Amam,.... Of Amam we read nowhere else;

and Shema is thought by some to be the same with Sheba, though wrongly, given afterwards to the tribe of Simeon, as was also Moladah, mentioned with it, Joshua 19:2;

and Moladah; it is also spoken of in 1 Chronicles 4:28, and seems to be the same with Malathi or Malatis, about twenty miles from Hebron f.

f Vid. Reland. Palest. Illustrat. tom. 2. p. 885, 886.

Joshua 15:26

26 Amam, and Shema, and Moladah,